It Was The Best Butter

[poliphilo]

I'm not particularly fond of my younger self- and if people kept coming up to me expecting me to be just like him I'd get cross.

It must be horrid to be middle-aged and still famous for something you did when you were a gobby kid. You'd feel trapped, like you couldn't move on. It would be like carrying a corpse around.

And maybe that's the reason- aside from the money, aside from wanting to prolong his fame- why Johnny Rotten did that stupid butter ad.  He wanted to ditch the cadaver.

He wanted to upset his fans.

And yes, it's always sad when a hero sells out.

Simple remedy: don't have any heroes in the first place.

Comments

[frumiousb.livejournal.com]

Your point about his younger self is well taken. But I don't really buy the whole most-punk-thing-that-he-can-still-do is advertise butter.

Sigh.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I really buy it either.

I'm making excuses for him. That's all. I think it's sad he's been trapped by his own image.

[oakmouse]

He tried to be John Lydon and grow past the punk, but people wanted him to stay Johnny Rotten. Or at least that's what I saw happening to him.

Pity he has to descend to a butter advert, though.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember his music as Lydon getting good reviews- about ten years ago.

[oakmouse]

It did, and with reason, but it didn't sell for beans. Or so I heard. And without the hard cold ka-ching of the cash register, you gotta do something to keep the money coming in.